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Ito keynote: Sound bytes and videos

Today’s opening keynote at the 2010 NMC Summer Conference was presented by cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. Her talk, “Learning with Social Media: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online,” centered on three paradigm shifts in peer-based learning:

Originality -> Appropriation

Stocks of knowledge -> Flows of knowledge

Assessment -> Reputation

Mimi Ito

Lots of smarter people will have blogged about this, so I thought I’d just share my favorite sound bytes:

“Google isn’t making us stupid, we have ourselves to blame for that.”

“Lateral flows of knowledge from student to student are becoming more robust and speedy.”

“It’s about building new kinds of social contracts”

“We can no longer assume that a stable canon of knowledge can be simply transmitted to students.”

“What looks like a distraction from the point of view of the instructor is a learning opportunity from the point of view of the student.”